Got flu like symptoms (in NZ)? Probably covid again. (Current vaccine apparently isn't a good match against BA.3.2)

National MPs, with their six figure salaries, who claim accommodation supplements that are more than some state housing occupants earn in a year, stripping away accomm support for state housing tenants is some next level hypocritical cruelty. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... #nzpol

That one github employee

thinking about how NZ turns up in multiple sci fi canon as a “penal colony” and cant help but think it really does feel like the goal of the far right project to get us there asap

National govt maths

Whoops stayed up till 1am to finish reading Project Hail Mary

Ooop 7pm on a Sunday night before work is not the right time to start playing Satisfactory <.<

The new Ask Auckland Council chatbot is pretty neat

Here's the latest variant picture for New Zealand, to early April. NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" fell sharply to 28%. BA.3.2.* "Cicada" grew steadily to 33%. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #NZ 🧵

Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

Hey guess what day it is

That meow meow pilot :3 (I kinda overdid the background haha) #furry #furryartist

You guys, look at this thing. You just jam a whole stick of butter in there and it melts it and you can just spray hot liquid butter on whatever. The 80s really was the decade of insane kitchen appliances.

Internet in Australia is rapidly becoming unusable without a VPN due to age verification. You need to verify your age to use some weather and calculator apps now. Scam apps and phishing sites are starting to realise they can just ask for your ID straight up and people will give it up. Insane shit.

The Green Party says a national electrification plan is needed to build NZ’s energy security as, unlike oil shipments, wind and solar can’t be held up in the Strait of Hormuz.

smelly prints available: mcapriglione.art

www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/lon... you can tl;dr this down to “there is no government response to long covid” because the NZ government and NZ Health are fucking useless..

#nzpol for anyone following the NZ fuel situation, hormuz-458b0b.gitlab.io has just updated

Two of them?? (Yes the abit bp6 gets a mention) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fatc...

Health policy people’s aversion to masking needs to be studied

haven't stopped giggling since I saw this

had to break up a plane fight at the airport today not on my watch ✋

Beware: my discerning vulpine nose can smell your Claude even if you hide the em dashes.

Here's the latest variant picture for New Zealand, to early March. NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" is in a tight battle with XFG.* "Stratus", with both finishing at 36%. BA.3.2.* "Cicada" fell to 6%. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #NZ #XFG #Stratus 🧵

Stupid DST changes *grumpy all week*

#nzpol welp diesel avg price same as 95 now… Will be same price as 98 around Thursday

This table brings out points in a bit more detail. Hope this helps NZ'ers understand where they sit in relation to what the UK, and Australia have been informed by their leaders around what the coming weeks, and months will bring. He waka eke noa, but those already vulnerable will be hit hardest.

#nzpol diesel same price as 91 now lets goooo

It's a tale as old as time. Company is founded. Company becomes successful. Company is sold off to overseas entity. Overseas entity closes down company. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

While the final outcome for BA.3.2 is uncertain, its distinct characteristics—extensively remodeled/shortened spike NTD & SD1/SD2, novel S2 mutations, & wholesale deletion of ORF7a/7b/8—make it the best candidate for co-dominance we've seen yet, which could mark a new era in SARS-2 evolution. 1/34

Trump should burn in hell for many many many reason, and this one i very much at the bottom of them, but I just wasted 2 days revivng a complex AWS account creation pipeline, extracting me-central-1 region from it, because AWS data center in UAE was bombed because of Trump's stupid war.

kawaiicon.org Kawaiicon 4: October 30-31, 2026 let the magical con ritual begin!

I see Valve Time has entered a new dimension.. (it’s autumn here, not spring or winter!)

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

humans are job security

AI is job security squared

cyber security is just never ending people doing shit they shouldn't do

Eee peeker arts by @treewolv.bsky.social

If you’re a big nerd like me, you may enjoy this two hour long video on filming CRTs by @cathoderaydude.com m.youtube.com/watch?v=qicQ...

Here’s the correct advice: www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...

Time to button up, poops don't lie: poops.nz #Covid #MaskUp

The national aggregate wastewater estimate is in the highest since July 2024 kind of zone. And while some individual catchments (in the north) are like that (check the maps tab at poops.nz for detail), a lot of the aggregate is that covid is up everywhere at the same time.

Weak tiny little kids who are barely 25: "Due to the traumas i'm an agere so i am allowed to like my stuffies according to my therapist it is normal for me because i am deconstructing toxic positionalities of gendered oppre" Me, age 40: "oh hell yeah another plushie i like. im ordering it. ok done"

“The only way to protect children is to restrict adult’s freedom” is perhaps the most destructive impulse of the current wave of political think

LOIs are back again! (Wellington this time) www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/news-and-upd...

My biggest argument for how I know Claude isn't self aware is that they AI guys care about it. If it had wants and needs, they'd abandon it immediately.

Lol, lmao.. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... But wait... techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/u...

Please please get your boosters, NZ just updated to LP.8.1 so nows as good a time as any

Politicians once again don't know what the fuck they're talking about